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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Barmymoo:
Random thing to post but I just read about a guy who is suing Oxford University because they wouldn't let him study for a 1-year MSc because he couldn't prove that he had £12,900 to cover his living costs.
What on EARTH do they think students spend? The average rent for a single room in Oxford is £535. Let's be generous to the university and say that accommodation will work out at about £7000 a year. Who on this earth spends £6000 a year on living costs excluding rent? I live on less than a third of that! If I were living on just my student loans, and not my earnings from various jobs, I'd be surviving on a sixth of that.
Just couldn't believe that a university which claims to be encouraging applicants from deprived backgrounds could have such an outrageously out-of-touch view of student lifestyles. That sum doesn't include tuition, by the way - he had a separate loan for that. They will not accept a masters student who cannot show that they have £13,000 in the bank at the start of the course.
Spriteling:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 27 Jan 2013, 08:07 ---Random thing to post but I just read about a guy who is suing Oxford University because they wouldn't let him study for a 1-year MSc because he couldn't prove that he had £12,900 to cover his living costs.
What on EARTH do they think students spend? The average rent for a single room in Oxford is £535. Let's be generous to the university and say that accommodation will work out at about £7000 a year. Who on this earth spends £6000 a year on living costs excluding rent? I live on less than a third of that! If I were living on just my student loans, and not my earnings from various jobs, I'd be surviving on a sixth of that.
Just couldn't believe that a university which claims to be encouraging applicants from deprived backgrounds could have such an outrageously out-of-touch view of student lifestyles. That sum doesn't include tuition, by the way - he had a separate loan for that. They will not accept a masters student who cannot show that they have £13,000 in the bank at the start of the course.
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That's pretty crazy. Even to get a student visa to the UK, you don't have to show that much money for living expenses. I think the first time I did it, I only had to show about £5000. It's strange to think that a university wants you to have more money than the immigration-phobic government does.
pwhodges:
Mind you, Oxford is now (this weekend's papers tell me) the most expensive place to live in the UK, edging ahead of London and Cambridge.
Barmymoo:
Even so, I don't believe it is six times more expensive than Cambridge. OK, I live very frugally, but even accounting for that - is it really three times as expensive as Cambridge?
I'm tired again. It's 9pm, and I got more than nine hours' sleep last night and every night this week. WHY AM I TIRED?
pwhodges:
No, of course not - and I imagine that (as usual) there is some crucial information about the situation and the requirements that has not been reported. In the first instance, the report veers back and forth between blaming the college and the university (which is common when reporting things in Oxford and Cambridge, of course).
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